Welcome!

This website and blog aims to track the progress and development of my research. If it opens my work up to new audiences that’s a (big!) bonus but this is a space for putting thoughts into words. It is also the place where I hope to develop and record new lines of enquiry as they evolve. It is, if you like, a record of my adventures in research.

I am interested in the ways in which literature is produced, received and disseminated in society and the politics that lie behind these processes.

Even in a (relatively) short career, my research has taken many different directions. Below are some of my main areas of interest:

Latin American Cultural Studies

Twentieth-Century and contemporary Latin American Literature with an emphasis on Mexico

Mexican Studies

Gender Studies

Literature and Culture of the Mexico-US borderlands

Canon formation

Reception studies

Sociology of literature

Literary and digital culture especially in the Hispanic World

Prizes and cultural festivals

The links on the right hand side provide more information about some of my current projects.

About Me

Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. Expertise in Mexican literary and digital cultural studies. Interested in the politics surrounding the reception, distribution and circulation of literature and cultural production particularly relating to canon formation and gender studies.